Top 30 Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes (2024 Update)

Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”

1. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.”

2. “Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.”

3. “If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

4. “Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.”

5. “Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”

6. “Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “The brimming glass that overflows its own rim moistens the earth about it.”

7. “The brimming glass that overflows its own rim moistens the earth about it.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.”

8. “It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.”

9. “A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “The girl’s eyes were soft and tender and the heart within her stretched a little and grew; grew in sweetness and intuition and depth of feeling. It had looked into another heart, felt it beat, and heard it sigh; and that is how all hearts grow.”

10. “The girl’s eyes were soft and tender and the heart within her stretched a little and grew; grew in sweetness and intuition and depth of feeling. It had looked into another heart, felt it beat, and heard it sigh; and that is how all hearts grow.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Having learned the trick of beating and loving and suffering, the poor faithful heart persisted, although it lived on memories and carried on its sentimental operations mostly in secret.”

11. “Having learned the trick of beating and loving and suffering, the poor faithful heart persisted, although it lived on memories and carried on its sentimental operations mostly in secret.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.”

12. “Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “You may have noted the fact that it is a person’s virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.”

13. “You may have noted the fact that it is a person’s virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “If I haven’t anything to write, I am just as anxious to ‘take my pen in hand’ as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!”

14. “If I haven’t anything to write, I am just as anxious to ‘take my pen in hand’ as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.”

15. “The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.”

16. “Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.”

17. “To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.”

18. “Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.”

19. “There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!”

20. “Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn’t come so soon.”

21. “When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn’t come so soon.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn’t so.”

22. “It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn’t so.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.”

23. “One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?”

24. “Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Hugh refused to leave the scene of the action. He seated himself on the top stair in the hall, banged his head against the railing a few times, just by way of uncorking the vials of his wrath, and then subsided into gloomy silence, waiting to declare war if more “first girl babies” were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article.”

25. “Hugh refused to leave the scene of the action. He seated himself on the top stair in the hall, banged his head against the railing a few times, just by way of uncorking the vials of his wrath, and then subsided into gloomy silence, waiting to declare war if more “first girl babies” were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I’m a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.”

26. “Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I’m a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Father doesn’t think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.”

27. “Father doesn’t think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “No whimpering, madam! You can’t have the joys of motherhood without some of its pangs! Think of your blessings, and don’t be a coward! –.”

28. “No whimpering, madam! You can’t have the joys of motherhood without some of its pangs! Think of your blessings, and don’t be a coward! –.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?” “Oh, no!” Mrs. Carey remarked with a smile, “I am just a mother, – that’s all! Good night.”

29. “You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?” “Oh, no!” Mrs. Carey remarked with a smile, “I am just a mother, – that’s all! Good night.”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “Why, mother!” cried Rebecca, clasping her knees with her hands; “why, mother, it’s enough joy just to be here in the world on a day like this; to have the chance of seeing, feeling, doing, becoming! When you were seventeen, mother, wasn’t it good just to be alive? You haven’t forgotten?”

30. “Why, mother!” cried Rebecca, clasping her knees with her hands; “why, mother, it’s enough joy just to be here in the world on a day like this; to have the chance of seeing, feeling, doing, becoming! When you were seventeen, mother, wasn’t it good just to be alive? You haven’t forgotten?”

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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quote: “It would be false to say that one could ever be alone when one has one’s lovely thoughts to comfort one.”

31. “It would be false to say that one could ever be alone when one has one’s lovely thoughts to comfort one.”

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